Event history analysis reveals earlier marriage in high mortality sibsets, indicating significant reproductive strategies.
Key Points
High mortality in sibsets significantly accelerates the transition to marriage, enhancing reproductive strategies in historical populations.
Early marriage linked to lower ages of reproduction shows a pattern consistent with evolutionary life history theory in Antwerp's 19th-century population.
Event history analysis was used to assess marriage timing in the context of sibling mortality, highlighting familial impacts in historical data.
The findings suggest that individual experiences with sibling mortality can have contradictory effects on marriage timing within families.